A week ago it was "Henne doesn't throw downfield"  Now - when he holds the ball long enough to throw downfield he takes 4 sacks more than he should have.  

Yes, 4 more.  I read the article and I re-watched the game.  I don't like Henne either, but only 4 of those sacks are on him. That's still too much but it's kind-of understandable when the headline all week was - "Chad Henne to chuck it deep more."  There is an obvious and direct correlation between asking a mediocre QB to throw deeper to a bunch of rookies and him taking 4 sacks that he wouldn't otherwise have taken. 

Should he have heaved it out of bounds on two of those? Absolutely. 

 

But  - Chad took 6 sacks that are blatantly the fault of a horrendous day by the line.  That's the way I see it.  I'll be happy to never see him behind center again, but putting more than 4 of those on Chad and lazily blaming Fisch are weak sauce, IMO. 

 

Imagine Fisch's offensive playbook is a shiny new car and we as fans are taking it for a test drive. Well, before you climb behind the wheel, go ahead and remove the right front wheel and tire.  Then permanently stick the gear selector in first gear and immobilize it.  Then see if you want to buy it after that "test drive."  You can't even get it out of the lot.  You're driving in a circle at 10 mph with sparks flying from under the fender. 

That's how I see this offense functioning right now. 

 

Can Fisch possibly make some adjustments to try to spark the run game? Yeah, I'd like to see some effort there. Did he make a few head scratcher calls yesterday? Yeah, that's fair.  But the sacks, and the O-line dysfunction are hobbling any hope of us really evaluating Fisch, IMO. 

 

Yesterday's offensive debacle was more the fault of the O-line than any other player, coach or unit of players.  There's plenty to go around, but they earned most of the blame. 

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